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NEW for 4/8: On Alzheimer’s, regulating time, missing people

NEW for 4/8: On Alzheimer’s, regulating time, missing people

Click here to read the latest full edition. In this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Care partners in life, and now with Alzheimer’s  
EEB PERSPECTIVE: The government is considering regulating how we keep time
SPOTLIGHT: Walton Gas
FEEDBACK: By deploying camera systems, maybe our area is catching up
UPCOMING: Snellville announces bands and dates of 2022 concert series
NOTABLE: GGC team searching for missing people—from years ago
RECOMMENDED: Dictionary of Words and Phrases by William Morris and Mary Morris 
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Georgia playwright has knack for delighting mainstream audiences
MYSTERY PHOTO: Perhaps these buildings can give you a clue to this Mystery
CALENDAR: Reclaim Gwinnett Place Mall Block Party will be Saturday, April 9  

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by · April 8, 2022 · Full issues, Uncategorized
BRACK: The government is considering regulating how we keep time

BRACK: The government is considering regulating how we keep time

By Elliott Brack  |  So, what’s your take on how we should keep the time? Do you like the idea of “Spring Forward” and then “Fall Back?” How to count the time is controversial.  The timing question has strong advocates among us for both sides. Now the U.S. Senate has jumped into this fray. If the Senators  had their way, our country would be permanently on what we now call Daylight Saving Time.

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by · April 8, 2022 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
NEW for 3/29: Armchair podcast; Peace in Ukraine; Bird trackers

NEW for 3/29: Armchair podcast; Peace in Ukraine; Bird trackers

Click here to read our latest edition. Inside this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Duluth grad is co-host of podcast in Los Angeles, Calif.
EEB PERSPECTIVE: The war in Ukraine: Can China become a peace negotiator?
OTHER VIEW: Students at GGC work to track birds in urbanized areas
SPOTLIGHT: The 1818 Club
FEEDBACK: Proposes naming leadership school after Noah Langdale
UPCOMING: Rowen Foundation’s Thought Leadership Series starts on March 31
NOTABLE: Siemens unveils fleet charging structure in Peachtree Corners
RECOMMENDED: The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity by Carlo M. Cipolla
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Blackbeard Island quarantine station abandoned in 1909
MYSTERY PHOTO: Handsome structure has a distinctive story, too
LAGNIAPPE: Here’s one way to use those ugly neckties
CALENDAR: Water Tower ribbon cutting for new facilities will be March 30 at 2 p.m.

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by · March 29, 2022 · Full issues
Ukraine, in green.

BRACK: The war in Ukraine: Can China become a peace negotiator?

By Elliott Brack  |  Please understand up front that we know few people who are well-versed about the country of Ukraine.  Certainly, we are not in that category. Yet just watching the news reports, and reading the dispatches about the invasion of Ukraine by Vladimir Putin’s Russia, certain  elements pop out at us:

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by · March 29, 2022 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
NEW for 3/2: On Rowen task force, cold temperatures, China

NEW for 3/2: On Rowen task force, cold temperatures, China

Click here to read the latest edition. In this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Rowen Foundation taps 18 people for Community Advisory Task Force
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Extremes in local weather; Why your mail arrived later 
ANOTHER VIEW: Reviewing China, the British Empire, opium and saving face
SPOTLIGHT: Gateway85 Gwinnett
FEEDBACK: Living near a time zone border can be very embarrassing
UPCOMING: PCOM Georgia readies students for vaccination effort
NOTABLE: Gateway85 CID adopts Freight Transit Study west of I-85
RECOMMENDED: Driving Mr. Albert by Michael Paterniti
GEORGIA TIDBIT: English native was designer of the Gwinnett County Courthouse
MYSTERY PHOTO: Here’s what we think is a “cream puff” Mystery Photo
CALENDAR: Pathquest coming to Braselton on March 13

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by · March 2, 2021 · Full issues, Uncategorized
NEW for 6/9: Freedom, Johnson, protests and dinosaurs

NEW for 6/9: Freedom, Johnson, protests and dinosaurs

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Freedom of Assembly Does Not Give Us a Right To Spread a Virus
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Boris Johnson Must Annoy and Confuse the Red Chinese Authorities
ANOTHER VIEW: Let African-Americans Know That We Care About Them
SPOTLIGHT: Centurion Advisory Group
FEEDBACK: Tell us your thoughts
UPCOMING: Georgia Gwinnett College Is Having Record Summer Enrollment
NOTABLE: Coronavirus Has a New Victim: Gwinnett Festivals
RECOMMENDED: A Lucky Life Interrupted by Tom Brokaw
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Confederates Burn USS Water Witch So Union Doesn’t Get It
MYSTERY PHOTO: Simple Grassy Field with Boulders Is Today’s Mystery Photo
LAGNIAPPE: Another Dinosaur Spotting: at Vines Gardens near Loganville
CALENDAR: Building Bridges Gathering Coming to Peachtree Corners Saturday

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by · June 9, 2020 · Full issues
BRACK: Johnson must annoy and confuse Red Chinese authorities

BRACK: Johnson must annoy and confuse Red Chinese authorities

By Elliott Brack |  With today’s Georgia primaries, the recent unrest and riots across the county, all overlaid by the coronavirus, a recent story out of Britain didn’t get much traction in the United States.

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by · June 9, 2020 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
BRACK: Gwinnett must be more urgent in planning for mass transit

BRACK: Gwinnett must be more urgent in planning for mass transit

By Elliott Brack  | In our family, it was those children in China that my parents mentioned.

“Eat your peas. Do you know that there are poor, starving children in China that would be so thankful if they had your food, like your peas, to eat?  Don’t waste food. Eat up. You are so lucky that you don’t live like the poor starving people in China.”

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by · September 10, 2019 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
8/20: On Hong Kong, Gwinnett Place, more

8/20: On Hong Kong, Gwinnett Place, more

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TODAY’S FOCUS: People’s Republic of China doesn’t care about Hong Kong Uprising
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Words from Several, and What’s Happening at Gwinnett Place Mall
SPOTLIGHT: Renasant Bank
FEEDBACK: Remembers Old Time Leaders Working Together Toward the Goal
UPCOMING: Aurora Theatre Appoints Two Key Management Executives 
NOTABLE: Rudy Bowen of Suwanee Is Vice Chairman of Transportation Board
RECOMMENDED: Osher Life Long Learning Institute at Emory University
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Salvador Dali Works Are on Exhibit at Oglethorpe University Museum 
MYSTERY PHOTO: What’s With These Statues on the Top of Today’s Mystery Photo?
CALENDAR: Oldtime Radio Show To Be Presented Saturday at Norcross Church

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by · August 20, 2019 · Full issues
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